Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Montgomery , Alabama . Founded in 1930, it displays American and regional art, as well as Old Master prints and decorative arts.
history
The museum was founded in 1930 by local artists and sponsors under the name of the Alabama Society of Fine Arts . Until 1959, the museum was housed in the old Lawrence Street School building in downtown Montgomery. From then on, the museum shared a building with the City-County Public Library. It was privately run by the Alabama Society of Fina Arts and relied primarily on membership fees and private donations. In 1960 the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts was taken over by the city and an education department set up, primarily offering programs and activities for children. In 1971 the museum restructured its collection, which until then also included historical and archaeological objects, and concentrated on works of art.
Since 1983 Montgomery County has been paying some of the costs. In 1988 the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts changed the building again. The city and the museum had raised more than six million dollars for the construction and collected donations, so that the new museum building in the Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park was built. It opened on September 18, 1988.
collection
The collection has three sections: American Art, Old Master Prints, and Decorative Art.
Examples of artworks in the American Art Department include landscapes by Thomas Moran and Frederic Edwin Church , and colonial portraits by Charles Willson Peale and John Singleton Copley . In addition, visitors can see modern works of art by artists such as Stuart Davis and Edward Hopper . Much of these works of art were donated by Winton M. Blount . The collection of prints Old Masters goes to a donation from Adolph Weil Jr. back. It includes works from the 15th to 19th centuries and works by artists such as Martin Schongauer , Albrecht Dürer , Giovanni Antonio Canal , Francisco de Goya and James McNeill Whistler . The museum also owns some prints by Rembrandt van Rijn . Examples of decorative arts are Chinese porcelain and European glassware.
literature
- Master printmakers of Three Centuries: Durer, Rembrandt, and Beyond: From the Collection of Adolph Weil, Jr . Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1994. ISBN 0-89280-033-X
- Catherine E. Hutchins (Ed.), Lissa Monroe (Ed.): Just How I Picture It in My Mind: Contemporary African American Quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts . River City Pub, 2006. ISBN 0-89280-047-X
Web links
- Official website (English)
Coordinates: 32 ° 21 ′ 3.7 " N , 86 ° 12 ′ 23.3" W.